Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1878 — Still Happy. [ARTICLE]

Still Happy.

For the past two weeks a Detroit druggist has put up a prescription of some kind Or other about four times a Aay.fpr a certain small boy, besides filling orders for a large variety of patent inedicines and porous plasters. The sales Were all cash, but the druggist’s curiosity was at length aroused, and he said to the lad : “ Got sickness in the family?” “Kinder,” was the reply. “Your father?” “■Yes—all but me. Ma is using the plasters for a lame side and taking the tonic for a rash which broke out on her elbows. Pa takes the troches for tickling in the throat, and uses the arnica on his shin.' Louisa uses that catarrh snuff and the cough medicine. Bill Wants the brandy for a sprained ankle, and the sqnills are for the baby. That’s all but grandma, and this prescription is to relieve the pain in her chest and make her sleep harder. ” “Rather unfortunate family,” remarked the druggist. ‘ ‘ Well, kinder; but pa says it’s cheaper than going to the seashore, and so we plaster up and swallow down, and feel purty happy after all.”— Detroit Free Press. Of course a line must be drawn somewhere. The baked missionary of the New Zealand cuisine, the underdone human thigh of the Feejee Islander, and the broiled fingers which are thought a “ dainty dish to set before the King” of Sumatra, are not to be recommended. Nor wonld a man be thought illiberal who should fail to appreciate a stew of red ants in Burman (although ants are said to have an agreeable acidity when properly prepared), parrot-pie in Rio Janeiro, roast bat in Malabar or a cuttle-fish fry in the Manrititre. James E. Blodgett was the defendant in a .Boston divorce suit. His wife accused him of habitual drunkenness. He was his own counsel, and he denied that he had ever been drunk; but he was so unmistakably drunk in court that the Judge said : ‘ ‘ You have given clear proof in support of your wife’s allegation. ”